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call us at... or visit your local liberty mutual office, where an agent can help you find the policy that's right for you. liberty mutual insurance, responsibility -- what's your policy? >>> four years ago, then senator barack obama addressed the annual naacp conference, but this year, the president is not going and is sending vice president joe biden in his stead. the white house says the president has a scheduling conflict but does his absence raise questions about whether he's taking the black vote for granted, a vote he won by 95% in 2008. joining the panel now is msnbc contributor and queen bee of the grio.com, joy-ann reid. let's get your thoughts on this first. we talk about joe biden as a surrogate. he is now the emissary to the conference. that is something the president should have gone to himself? >> it's interesting. joe biden is becoming the surrogate to the black community. he also did the national association of black journalists conference. first of all, barack obama will still get
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save us from socialism, et cetera. that kind of boils down to where there's this fissure between what the koch brothers and the rupert murdochs of the world are bankrolling so much of the opposition to obama. what they feel and what is their hot button issues versus where is the economy, where are the jobs, those are the real questions. i don't think this election is going to be won or lost on rupert murdoch's fear of socialism, et cetera. >> but to his point, sam, we know the romney campaign is a very insular, very tight-knit group. we saw what eric fernstrom said earlier this day. he was author of the etch-a-sketch comment. what is the likelihood there is recalibration? >> depends how these next months go, obviously. we in the media tend to put too much into who the advisors are and we don't really -- more so than what the conditions of the economy are, what the conditions of some of the policy debates are. the advisors can bring you so far. a good ad can be made by many advisors and certainly, better ad can be made
save us from socialism, et cetera. that kind of boils down to where there's this fissure between what the koch brothers and the rupert murdochs of the world are bankrolling so much of the opposition to obama. what they feel and what is their hot button issues versus where is the economy, where are the jobs, those are the real questions. i don't think this election is going to be won or lost on rupert murdoch's fear of socialism, et cetera. >> but to his point, sam, we know the romney...
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thanks for being with us. who exactly is going to benefit or potentially be denied coverage under the expanded medicaid proposal here? >> so the group we're looking at is mostly adults who are not parents and anyone earning less than 133% to the federal poverty line, a little less than $15,000 a year. those are the folks we are really talking about. most of them don't get covered right now. it's a common misconception that medicaid covers all low income folks. but actually, if you're an adult without children, you don't tend to get coverage. that's really what's on the line here for about 17 million americans. >> so that's about $270 a week, those individuals would be making, right? >> right. that's right. >> what are their options if they are in one of these states and don't get medicaid? >> they could buy a private plan that would more than likely be out of their price range. the average private plan will eat up a huge amount of their income. they could go to the e.r., they could kind of use any resources fo
thanks for being with us. who exactly is going to benefit or potentially be denied coverage under the expanded medicaid proposal here? >> so the group we're looking at is mostly adults who are not parents and anyone earning less than 133% to the federal poverty line, a little less than $15,000 a year. those are the folks we are really talking about. most of them don't get covered right now. it's a common misconception that medicaid covers all low income folks. but actually, if you're an...